Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-15

the triumph OF the gospel. On, how much
wasted ammunition, how maly men of
splendid intellect have given their whole
life to controversial disputes, when, if
they had given their life to something
practical, they might have been vastly
useful Suppose this morning, while |
speak, there were common enemy COM
ing up the bay through the Narrows, and |
all the forts around New York began to
fire into each other-you would cry out:
National suicide! why don't those
FORTS BLAZE AWAY
in one direction, and that against the !
common enemy?" And yet sometimes |
see in the church of the Lord Jesus |
Christ strange thing going On, church |
against church, minister against minis |
ter, denomination against denomination,
tiriug away into their own fort, or the
fort which ought to be on the same side,
instead of concentrating their energy and
giving one mighty and everlasting Volley
against the navies of darkness riding up
through the bay.
go out sometimes in the summer, and
find two bee hives, and these two hives
are in quarrel. l come near enough,
rot to be stung, put | come ust near
enough to hear the controversy, and one
bee hive.ssys, THAT field of clover is the
sweetest" and another bee hive says,
That field of clover is the sweetest"
l come in between them, and | say,
"Slop this quarrel; if you like that field
of clover best, 60 there; if you like that
! field of clover best, go there; but let me
tell you that that hive which gets the
most honey is the best hive" SO l come
out between the churches of the Lord
Jesus Christ. One denomination Of
Christians says, THAT field OF Christian
doctrine is best" and another says,
"This field of Christian doctrine is best"
Well, say, "Go where you get the most
honey" That is the best church which
gets the most honey of Christian grace
for the heart, and the most honey Of
Christian usefulness for the life.
Beside that, if you want to build up
any denomination, you Will never build it
up by trying to pull some other down.
Intolerance never put anything down.
How much has intolerance accomplished,
for instance, against the Methodist
church, For long years her ministry
were forbidden the pulpits of Great
Britain. Why was it that so many of
them preached in the field? Simply be-
cause
the churches. And the name CT the
church was given IN derision and as q
sarcasm. The critics of the church said {:
"They hsve no order, they have no method
IN their WOrship;n and the critics, there
fore, in irony called them "Methodists. !"
am told that in Aston Library, New
+ York, kept as curiosities there are 707
books and pamphlets against MethOdism,
Did intolerance stop that church? No; it
is either first or second amid the denOmi-
: nations of Christendom, her missionary
stations in all parts of the world, her men
not only important in religious trusts,
, but important also N secular trusts.
+ Church marching on, and the more in
q tolerance against id,the faster it marched
: What did intolerance accomplish
= against the Baptist church? If laughing
> scorn and TRADE could have destroyed
the church it would not have to-day 8
disciple left.
The Baptlsts were hurled out Of Boston
= in olden times. Those who sYmpathized
with them were confined, and when pc
n tition was offered asking leniency in theil
a behalf, all the men who signed 1t were
+ indicted. Has intolerance stopped the
Baptist church? The last statistics in re
), gard TO it showed about thirty Thousand
! churches and two and half million com
a municants. Intolerance never put doWI
anything.
In England law was made against the
i Jew. England thrust back the Jew anC
4 thrust down the Jew, and declared tina
no Jew should hold official position
y What came of it? Were the Jews de
+ stroyed? Was their religion overthrown
4 No. Who became prime minister of En-
gland years ago? Who was next to tn
throne? Who was higher than the throne
because he was counselor and adviser
{ The descendant Of Jew. What were W.
. celebrating in ell our churches as well a
- synagogues a few years ago? The on
- hundredth
:, BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
- of Montefore, the great Jewish philan
thropist. Intolerance never yet put dow
anything.
/ g. But now, my friends, having show
= you the origin OF bigotry or sectarian
~ ism, and having shown you the dana g
it does, want briefly to show you HOY
:, we are to war against this terrible evil
" and think we ought to begin our War b
~ realizing our own weakness and our in
projections. II we make go many mis-
III takes in the common affairs of lie, is
: not possible that we may make mistake
% in regard to our religious affairs? Sha
Il we take man by the throat, or by tn
|. collar, because he cannot see religion
Is truths just as we do? In the light c
:, eternity it will be found out, think
70 there was something wrong in all GU
w Creeds, and something right in all ou
y creeds. But since we may make mistake
Is il regard to things OF the world, do nc
"a y. let US be egotistic, and so pulled up as
~ have an idea that we cannot make an
- =. mistake in regard to religious theorle:
VI And then think we will do great des
7. to overthrow the seCtarianism from on
y heart, and the sectarianism from th
% a. world, by chiefly charging upon thos
VI things in which we agree rather tina
~ those on which we differ
III Now, here is q great Gospel platform
A man comes up on this side the platforI
81 and says, 81 don't believe in baby sprinl
~ ling" Shall l shove him of? Here is
aI man coming up on this side the platform
d and he says, 81 don't believe in the pc
severance of the saints Shall shoy
=; him off? No. will say, "Do you be
Is lieve in the Lord Jesus as your Savior
~ do you trust Him for time and for etern
"a typ He says, eyes" $40 you tax
VI Christ for time and for etern